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Grunt vs nodemon: What are the differences?
Developers describe Grunt as "The JavaScript Task Runner". The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort. On the other hand, nodemon is detailed as "A simple monitor script for use during development of a node.js app". It is an open source utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server. It has a default support for node & coffeescript, but easy to run any executable (such as python, make, etc).
Grunt and nodemon are primarily classified as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" and "node.js Application Monitoring" tools respectively.
Grunt and nodemon are both open source tools. nodemon with 18.7K GitHub stars and 1.24K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Grunt with 12K GitHub stars and 1.54K GitHub forks.
Pros of Grunt
- Configuration288
- Open source176
- Automation of minification and live reload166
- Great community60
- SASS compilation7
Pros of nodemon
- Easy to use1
- It's lightweight1
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Cons of Grunt
- Poor mindshare/community support1
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